AGE 13+

Quick Start Guide

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Welcome to Magic: The Gathering, the worlds
premier trading card game. Youre about to
discover why millions around the world play
Magic: its deep strategy, its beautiful worlds and
strong characters, and its worldwide community.
If you already own some Magic cards, get them
out now. Those cards represent the tools
youll use to defeat your opponents. Youll
summon fearsome creatures, wield
mystical items and incantations, and
cast wondrous magical spells. The
cards are your game pieces, and you
can put them together in countless
combinations.
There are thousands of cards to
choose from, so where do you get
started? Each player needs a deck of
at least 60 cards, and an intro pack
is a great way to get one. Intro packs
give you everything you need to
start playing: a ready-to-play 60-card
deck filled with creatures, lands, and
other spells. You also get two 15-card
booster packs, giving you more cards
to make your deck your own.

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Basic Land Swamp

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
Basic Land Plains
battlefield, you gain 3 life.
When Divine Favor enters the

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Whenever you cast a white spell or a

When one of us prospers, the pride

hand of seven cards and check to see
Artifact

Creature Kithkin Soldier

+1/+1 until end of turn.

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Enchant artifact

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except by artifact creatures and/or creatures base power and toughness 5/5 in
that share a color with it.) addition to its other types.
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 Types of Cards
Your deck includes lands and creatures, and it may also include sorceries, instants, artifacts,
enchantments, and planeswalkers! On the next few pages, well take a look at what the
different types of cards are and how to use them.

Lands
Forest
Land cards are the foundation of any successful Magic deck.
Lands provide mana, the magical energy you need to cast all
the other cards in your deck. You can play one land during your
main phase on each of your turns. Lands stay on the battlefield
in front of you. Your lands untap (reset) at the start of each of
your turns so that you can use them again.
There are five types of basic land, each one corresponding
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different strengths and capabilities. Youll get to know the
colors as you play more.
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Every card that isnt a land can be cast as a spell. Some types of spells are put
onto the battlefield and become permanents. Other types of spells have their
effect and then go to your graveyard (discard pile).
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cast them.
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symbol. The color of the symbol
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common, silver for uncommon,
gold for rare, or orange-red for
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text box. Some abilities have
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Creatures have two numbers in

S-Spell the lower right corner. The first
This tells you the cards type, such
as creature or land. Each creature number is power, which tells you
also has one or more creature how much damage the creature
types, found after a long dash, that deals in combat. The second
tell you what kind of creature it is. number is toughness. If a creature
is dealt that much damage or more
in a single turn, the creature is
destroyed and put into its owners
graveyard (discard pile).

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Combat
You win the game by reducing your opponents life total to 0. The most common way
to do that is to attack your opponent with creatures during combat.

Attacking and Blocking

During your turn, you decide which of your creatures, if any, will attack. You cant attack with a
creature if its tapped or if it entered the battlefield this turn. You have one combat phase in the
middle of your turn, and all the creatures you decide to attack with attack at the same time.
Once youve decided which of your creatures are attacking, tap those creatures. Your tapped
creatures, like your tapped lands, will untap at the beginning of your next turn.
Most of the time, your creatures will attack your opponent. Sometimes they can also attack
planeswalkers. But creatures never attack other creatures. You just send them across the
battlefield, and your opponent decides what happens next.
Now imagine youre on the other side of the battlefield. Your opponent has attacked you with
some of his or her creatures. If you control any untapped creatures, you can use those creatures
to block. Blocking doesnt cause creatures to become tapped. Each blocking creature can block
one attacking creature. You can also have multiple creatures block the same attacking creature.
In that case, the attacking player decides how much damage the attacking creature deals to each
of the blockers in turn.

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target artifact.
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has attacked you with a Thundering Giant (4/3) and
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opponent equal to their power. In this case, those

Defending Player creatures will deal a total of 6 damage to you, which
means you lose 6 life. You might choose not to block
if your life total is high and you want to save your
Attacking Player creature for a counterattack.
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deals 2 damage to you. You didnt destroy any of your

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your life total was low.

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anything, the top spell or ability on the stack will resolve.
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battlefield. You have Titanic Growth in your hand and
your opponent has Lightning Strike.
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Where to Go Next

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 Glossary

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oTThis symbol means tap this card. It appears
only as a cost to activate an ability.
+1/+1A bonus applied to a creature giving
+1 to its power and +1 to its toughness.
The numbers can be any value, including
negative numbers.
castYou cast a spell by paying its mana cost
and putting it onto the stack. See Casting
Spells on page 6.
controlYou control the creatures and other
permanents that you have on the battlefield,
unless your opponent uses a spell or ability to
gain control of one of your permanents. In that
case, your opponent can use it and you cant.
When it leaves the battlefield or the game ends,
its returned to you.
counter a spellIf a card counters a spell, you
can cast it in response to a spell your opponent
is casting. The countered spell has no effect, and
its put into the graveyard.
counter on a cardSometimes counters are put
on a card to keep track of something. Many are
+1/+1 counters, which each give a creature +1
power and +1 toughness. You can use any small
item to represent counters.
damageCreatures deal damage equal to
their power during combat. Spells can also deal
damage to creatures and players. Damage dealt
to a player causes that player to lose that much
life. Creatures that are dealt damage equal to or
greater than their toughness in a single turn are
destroyed. Damaged creatures on the battlefield
heal at the end of each turn.
deathtouchA creature dealt damage by a
creature with deathtouch is destroyed.
defenderA creature with defender cant attack.
destroyA permanent thats destroyed is put
into the graveyard. Creatures that are dealt
damage at least equal to their toughness in a
single turn are destroyed. Spells and abilities can
also destroy permanents.
diesAnother way to say a creature has been
put into a graveyard from the battlefield.
discardTo discard a card, choose a card from
your hand and put it into your graveyard.
double strikeA creature with double strike
deals damage twice each combat: once before
creatures without first strike or double strike, and
then again when creatures normally deal damage.
draw a cardTo draw a card, take the top card
of your library and put it into your hand.
enchantAn Aura is an enchantment that
enchants (attaches to) another card on the
battlefield. For example, you can cast an Aura
with enchant creature to attach it to any
creature on the battlefield. If that creature leaves
the battlefield, the Aura is put into the graveyard.
equipIf you have an Equipment card on the
battlefield, you can pay its equip cost to attach
it to one of your creatures on the battlefield. If
the equipped creature leaves the battlefield, the
Equipment card stays.
exileIf an ability exiles a card, its removed
from the battlefield and set aside. An exiled
card isnt a permanent (because its not on the
battlefield) and isnt in the graveyard. A card
stays in exile until the game ends or until the
card is moved to a different game zone.
fightWhen two creatures fight, each deals
damage equal to its power to the other. This is
different from creatures dealing damage
in combat.
first strikeA creature with first strike deals its
damage in combat before creatures without
first strike or double strike.
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flashYou may cast a spell with flash any time
you could cast an instant, even in response to
other spells.
flyingA creature with flying can be blocked
only by other creatures with flying and creatures
with reach.
hasteA creature with haste can attack and you
can activate its oT abilities as soon as it comes
under your control.
hexproofA creature with hexproof cant be
the target of spells or abilities your opponents
control, including Aura spells. Your spells and
abilities can still target it.
indestructibleAn indestructible permanent
cant be destroyed by damage or by effects that
say destroy. It can still be sacrificed or exiled.
If an effect reduces an indestructible creatures
toughness to 0 or less, its still put into its
owners graveyard.
intimidateA creature with intimidate cant
be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or
creatures that share a color with it.
lifelinkIf a creature with lifelink deals damage,
its controller also gains that much life.
manaThis is the energy you get from your
lands that you use to cast spells. Mana can be
white (oW), blue (oU), black (oB), red (oR), green
(oG), and sometimes even colorless (o1).
mana poolThis is where mana goes after
you tap your lands for it and before you spend
it. Some abilities tell you to add mana to your
mana pool. These abilities give you mana like
the mana you get from tapping lands. Mana
cant be saved from turn to turn.
mulliganAt the start of the game, if you
dont like your hand, you can take a mulligan.
Shuffle your hand back into your deck and
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draw a new hand with one fewer card. You can
take as many mulligans as you like, but your
starting hand gets smaller each time. Usually
players take mulligans because they dont have
enough land cards, or because they have too
many lands and not enough spells.
next time, next damageSometimes an ability
refers to the next time something happens
or the next damage that a creature or player
would be dealt. Remember that an instant or
ability used in response to something happens
first.
permanentLands, creatures, artifacts,
enchantments, and planeswalkers are
permanents. They enter the battlefield after you
cast them. Token creatures are also permanents.
Instants and sorceries are not permanents. They
go to the graveyard after they resolve.
protectionA creature with protection from a
color cant be blocked, dealt damage, enchanted,
or targeted by anything of that color.
reachA creature with reach can block
creatures with flying (and creatures without
flying).
regenerateRegenerating a creature keeps
it from being destroyed. Instead of being
destroyed, the creature gets tapped, its removed
from combat (if its in combat), and all its
damage is healed.
sacrifice Sometimes a card tells you to
sacrifice a creature or some other permanent.
To sacrifice a permanent, you move it from
the battlefield to your graveyard. You cant
regenerate it or save it in any way. You can
sacrifice only your own permanents.
tapTo tap a card is to turn it sideways. You do
this when you use a land to make mana, when
you attack with a creature, or when you activate
an ability that has the oT symbol as part of its X, oXSome spells and abilities have effects
cost. You cant tap a permanent again until its that change depending on how much mana
been untapped. At the beginning of each of your you use to pay for them. For example, Heat Ray
turns, you untap your tapped cards so you can is an instant spell that costs oXoR and deals X
use them again. damage. If you paid o3oR to cast it, it would deal
targetIf a spell uses the word target, you 3 damage. If you paid o6oR to cast it, it would
choose what the spell will affect when you cast deal 6 damage.
it. The same is true for abilities you activate.
tokenSome cards create token creatures. You
can use token cards from booster packs, glass
beads, dice, or anything else to represent them.
trampleIf a creature with trample would
assign enough damage to its blockers to
destroy them, you may have it assign the rest
of its damage to the player or planeswalker its
attacking.
untapUntap a tapped card by turning it right
side up. When you untap your permanents at
the beginning of your turn, it means that you
can use (tap) them again.
vigilanceA creature with vigilance doesnt
tap to attack. (Vigilance doesnt allow a tapped
creature or a creature that entered the battlefield
this turn to attack, though.)

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 Parts of a Turn
Beginning Phase
Untap stepTurn all your tapped cards upright again.
Upkeep step
Draw stepDraw a card from your library (deck).
Main Phase
 ou may play one land from your hand by putting it onto
Y
the battlefield (table). You may cast creatures, sorceries, and
other spells if you can pay for them.

Combat Phase
Beginning of combat step
Declare attackers stepTap every creature you want to
attack your opponent with. (A creature cant attack the turn
you cast it unless it has haste.)
Declare blockers stepEach untapped defending creature
may block one attacker. Creatures dont have to block.
C ombat damage stepBlockers and the attackers theyre
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blocking deal damage to each other equal to their power,

the first number in the lower right corner. If a creature
takes damage at least equal to the second number,
toughness, its destroyed. Unblocked attackers deal damage
to your opponent, who loses that much life.
End of combat step
Main Phase (Again)
 ou may play a land if you havent played one yet.
Y
You may cast spells.

Ending Phase
End step
Cleanup stepDamaged creatures on the battlefield heal.